By Orrin Farries The summer of isolation is near over, and the machine chugs on with the rattle of a lawn-mower struggling to turn over. While the beginning of the pandemic shot an icy spike through the heart of professional sports entertainment, the summer was not...
By Orrin Farries Is the NBA coming back for a conclusion of its 2019-2020 season? That’s the question that has been on my mind and I am sure a good deal of other NBA fans and pundits. On March 7 of this the year of our lord 2020, the seeds of doubt were planted when...
By Orrin Farries Sports Editor WWE hosted its most recent ‘showcase of the immortals’, Wrestlemania 36, to a live audience of its production crew and former New England Patriot and Wrestlemania emcee, Rob Gronkowski. There is a lot to unpack with Vince McMahon’s...
By Orrin Farries Sports Editor You cannot spell catastrophe without ‘sport’. That is what these last two weeks have been for the sporting world. A catastrophic blow to the meta-ego of sports enthusiasts everywhere. The question of whether sports will continue this...
By Mia Hildebrandt & Orrin Farries As the sports world has come to a pause due to COVID-19, it’s been a confusing time for sports fans. The NHL, NFL, MLB, NBA and even March Madness has been either postponed or cancelled. To help you navigate through these tough...
By Orrin Farries Sports Editor As of Thursday March 12, 2020, all organized sporting activities have been suspended. The cascade of sports cancellations came to the Alberta Collegiate Athletics Conference by way of the social leadership shown by the National...
By Orrin Farries Sports Editor Sports are a common ground for people of all walks of life to enrich their life with a healthy dose of competition. The lessons that are learned in sport, of perseverance, resiliency and positive thinking, profoundly enrich the human...
Sports are important to a lot of people. So does music. I am sitting here writing an article about the effect music has on sports, as I listen to Metallica. Have you ever gone to the gym and ran or lifted weights without music? If you do, that’s probably pretty boring...
Last year, when I created a web portfolio to showcase some of my writing and video work and labelled myself a “multimedia journalist,” the term earned a few scoffs from some of my classmates. “Multimedia journalist,” they sneered. “Sounds a bit high-brow to me.” Well,...
